Flashback: ‘Squad’ member Rashida Tlaib once called for Trump’s deportationFox News, Jul 23, 2019, Alex Pappas
President Trump spent the last week battling accusations of racism for his tweets suggesting liberal lawmakers "go back" where they came from, fix things and return to "show us how it's done."
But it turns out one of his targets -- Rep. Rashida Tlaib -- had a similar, even harsher, message for him during the 2016 campaign.
“Deport this a--hole!†Tlaib, D-Mich., tweeted in December 2015, linking to a story about then-presidential candidate Trump’s highly controversial call for "a total and complete shutdown†of Muslims entering the United States after the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack. Tlaib, a Muslim, was later elected to Congress in 2018.
Tlaib’s tweet holds new relevance amid the outrage over Trump’s attacks on the so-called “Squad†made up of Reps. Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
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A spokesman for Tlaib did not immediately return a request for comment about the 2015 tweet and whether it's consistent with her criticism of Trump's comments about her and the other Democrats.
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